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Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300254853, ISBN: HB: 9780300238600, Yale University Press, September 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private...
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£10,99
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Athenaeum "More Than Just Another London Club"
ISBN: HB: 9780300246773, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
When it was founded in 1824, the Athen?um broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated...
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Bhutto Dynasty The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300246674, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.
The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the Bhuttos dear. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, widely regarded as the most talented politician in the country's history, was removed from power in 1977...
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Last Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300217803, Yale University Press, September 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did – in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that inf...
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MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
ISBN: HB: 9780300233209, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 26 black&white illus.
When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way...
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Security Empire The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300242577, Yale University Press, August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...
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Third Walpurgis Night The Complete Text
ISBN: HB: 9780300236002, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's "Third Walpurgis Night" was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews...
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Warm South How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300251531, ISBN: HB: 9780300235920, Yale University Press, August 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.
Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons – including many painters and poets – who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Refer...
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Battle for Syria International Rivalry in the New Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300249910, Yale University Press, August 2020
384 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Updated with two new chapters, this book exposes the profound influence of the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in Syria's bloody conflict and explores the implications of the perceived decline of American power in the Mid...
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Accursed Tower The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300254808, Yale University Press, August 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...
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